bullishinterpretation✓ corroboratedassessmenton Microsoft
Microsoft really went hard after developers and that's exactly what they should have been doing.
— E918 Stack Overflow Joel Spolsky: 100m+ mo visitors, leadership, pivots, Trello sale, stepping aside — microsoft
neutralfactfact_claimon Microsoft
And I was reminded of when I used to work in the Microsoft Excel team... they make more money off of Excel than Microsoft makes in a year in a day because they Excel enabled the whole derivatives business. ... Excel was like lucky if it scraped up a billion a year
— E918 Stack Overflow Joel Spolsky: 100m+ mo visitors, leadership, pivots, Trello sale, stepping aside — microsoft
neutralfactfact_claimon Microsoft
They're paying us a lot more now.
— E918 Stack Overflow Joel Spolsky: 100m+ mo visitors, leadership, pivots, Trello sale, stepping aside — microsoft
neutralfactfact_claimon Microsoft
we do almost nothing. It's like a small team of sales people uh that sell ads mostly for Azure, honestly.
— E918 Stack Overflow Joel Spolsky: 100m+ mo visitors, leadership, pivots, Trello sale, stepping aside — microsoft
bullishinterpretation✓ corroboratedassessmenton Microsoft
There was an internal Stack Overflow at Microsoft that I think did really well.
— E918 Stack Overflow Joel Spolsky: 100m+ mo visitors, leadership, pivots, Trello sale, stepping aside — microsoft